the Supreme Court is not a sacred body if it is bent toward politics rather than justice.

It has been said that having a sacred document (the Constitution), Americans need a sacred body to administer it.

But the Supreme Court is not a sacred body if it is bent toward politics rather than justice.

It is now routinely said that many are holding their noses and continuing to support the person in the White House because he will appoint Republican judges at the Supreme Court and intermediate levels. Let’s think about that for a moment. The movie "A Man for All Seasons" addressed the rule of law:

"[Sir Thomas] More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man's laws, not God's– and if you cut them down—and you're just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake."

But if the law is reduced to a sordid matter of "Republican judges" or "Democratic judges," the laws are down. We no longer have a polity of "laws, not men."

Where will you hide, "the laws all being flat? … Do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?"